First growth curves based on the World Health Organization reference in a Nationally-Representative Sample of Pediatric Population in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): the CASPIAN-III study

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mansourian, Marjan ^a   Marateb, Hamid R ^b   Kelishadi, Roya ^c   Motlagh, Mohammad E ^d,e   Aminaee, Tahereh ^e   Taslimi, Mahnaz ^f   Majdzadeh, Reza ^g   Heshmat, Ramin ^h   Ardalan, Gelayol ^e   Poursafa, Parinaz ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

^f Ministry of Education   (Iran)

^g TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^h TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Growth; Iran; Reference curve; Weight disorder

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; IRAN; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE EAST; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL AREA; SAMPLE; SAMPLING; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84866162257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-149     Document Type: Article

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